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The mission of the Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center, Inc. is to enhance the cultural and economic environment of our community by building and operating a center for the performing arts.
Progressive folk singer
Corinne West to perform
at State Theatre Nov. 13
Singer songwriter Corrine West will grace the stage of the State
Theatre as part of her nationwide CD release tour on Nov. 13 at
7:30. This will be the first acoustic performance of Auburn Placer
Performing Arts Center’s series “Onstage at the State Theatre.”
West’s music has variously been described as “roots, “Americana.” and “progressive folk.” There are echoes of rural towns,
honk-tonks, roads traveled and roads less traveled. Her music is
compelling both in the strength of her writing and the expressive
power of her voice.
Her new CD, The Promise, is a fine recording with provocative
lyrics, great accompaniment, and singing that quickens the heart.
The new work has tweaked the blueprint established on 2004’s
head-turning debut Bound For The Living and its stunning 2007
follow-up Second Sight.
In concert West brings a special grace and fire to the stage.
The strength of her songwriting, the power of her voice, and her
Singer-songwriter Corinne West will appear at the State Theatre
Nov. 13 as part of the nationwide CD release tour of her new
recording “The Promise.”
magnetic stage presence create a captivating performance, winning
rave reviews at home and abroad. People who hear West perform
once want to be there again.
Tickets are available at the APPAC office (885-0156) or online
at www.livefromauburn.com.
Inaugural film series movie a huge success
By Richard Del Balso
Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center
kicked off its “Cinema at the State” Film Series in August with a very successful weekend
run of the critically acclaimed documentary
Food, Inc. Three of the four showings were
complete sellouts, including Saturday night,
despite going up against the always popular
Black and White Ball.
Many positive comments were heard over
the weekend, as all moviegoers seemed to enjoy the remodeled State Theater, as well as the
beautiful array of free local produce provided
by the Foothill Farmers Market Association
and Slow Food Placer Gold. Not your typical
“movie fare” to say the least, but considering
the powerful message of the movie, most appreciated by everyone present.
The two “new” 35mm projectors ran
flawlessly, thanks to a core group of APPAC
Board members and other supporters who
volunteered as projectionists.
Cheering on from the audience during
Friday night’s opening show was none
other than John Eickhof, who installed the
projectors earlier this year and drove all
the way down from Idaho to be here for
this first film.
Also present in the opening-night audience were Vern and Eula Marriott, who are
the executors for the Guy Eriksen Estate.
Eriksen was a long-time supporter of the
State Theater.
The “Cinema at the State” series of films
continues on the third Thursday of each
month at 7 pm, except for December. For
a complete listing of all films, including the
first-ever Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival
next April, go to the APPAC website: www.
livefromauburn.com .
Launching APPAC mission brings
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Administrator’s Message
What has 130 seats, a new movie screen, a new stage, projectors, theatrical lighting and a sound system? Since the last
issue of Showtime, the newly refurbished small theater in the
historic State Theatre Building has opened. This has been made
possible through the tireless efforts of the Board of Directors of
the Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center, many supporters
and community-minded individuals. The goal of operating the
small multi-use theatre is to bring a variety of live shows and
movies to the community, which will build local and regional
audience support and contribute vitality to the Auburn area.
In the past six weeks more than 1,600 patrons have filled
the seats at the State Theatre for live theater and movie performances. This was accomplished in part through rental of
the theater in August to Placer Community Theatre Company,
giving the community theater group double their audience
seating capacity. Their use of the theater launched a successful nine show run of the musical comedy, “Midlife! The Crisis
Musical.”
During that three weekend run, theater patrons visited
shops and restaurants in Auburn before and after the shows.
Also contributing to the flow of patrons, APPAC, in partnership with Foothill Farmers’ Market Association and Slow Food
Placer Gold, held four showings of the nationally acclaimed
documentary film, Food Inc. Three of those were sold out.
Third Thursday’s “Cinema at the State” series launched in
September and continues through 2010. Alexandra Carnahan
from Tsuda’s Eatery served delicious homemade “Cali-deli”
to ticket holders before viewing “Cinema Paradiso”. With a 7
pm start time, that makes it easy to grab a bite and relax.
KAHI AM 950 is producing a karaoke event in cooperation
with APPAC on October 4 called “Auburn Sings.” Auditions
were held at Auburn’s Power Club and Original Pete’s.
Closing the late summer season was the brilliant Chamber Music Concert by Trio Rose. The audience
was thrilled to hear such accomplished classical
musicians from Sacramento and Davis.
Each event held has brought a different variety
of patrons to the theater and into the heart of
Auburn. If you have not been to the State Theatre lately, please make a point of attending the
upcoming acoustic concert with Corrine West,
the November movie “Purple Rose of Cairo,” or
the staged radio play of “It’s A Wonderful Life”
in late December. Our schedule can be found
Janis Wikoff
on page 6 of this issue of Showtime and online at
Administrative
www.livefromauburn.com.
Coordinator
See you at the theater.
APPAC
Executive Board
President
Paul Ogden
First Vice-President
Ron Ravo
Vice-President
Dave Mackenroth
Past President
Bud Pisarek
Treasurer
George Graziano
Secretary
Kevin Odell
Founders
Esther Stanton
Doris Viera
Directors
Bob Burge
Warren Burns
Monroe DeJarnette
Richard Del Balso
Sue Dings
Glenda Gonzales
Dean Prigmore
Bill Radakovitz
George Remaley
Rosie Stilwell
Peter VanBeckum
Administrative Coordinator
Janis Wikoff
Newsletter Editor:
Bob Burge
Auburn Placer
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Get Involved
Lend a Hand
As APPAC continues to present
live theater, music, and movies, we
need volunteer help in many areas:
concessions, ushers, movie projectionists, office help, construction,
cleaning, etc. If you would like to
help in any way, please call Janis
Wikoff at 885-0156
Leslie Duran is one of the newest APPAC volunteers and brings
a wealth of acting and business knowledge to the operation of the
theater. She is currently serving as Chairperson of the Live Programming Committee.
Leslie began acting at the age of 10 at her local community theater
in LaHabra. She spent most of her teen and college years acting and
choreographing around the Orange County area. After receiving her
BA in theater Education from CSU Fullerton, she began teaching
theater arts at Arlington High School in Riverside. She taught several
levels of acting and stagecraft, in addition to directing three shows
annually.
She later received her MA in Directing from Roosevelt University
in Chicaco. and moved to Reno, where she taught drama at a charter
high school for two years. Her past directing credits include shows
such as Little Shop of Horrors, Once On This Island, A Chorus Line,
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelve Angry Men, Rumors, and Once
Upon a Mattress.
Leslie left teaching in 2004 to work for Wells Fargo, Bank as a
Project Manager in the Learning & Sales Development Department
for the California Region. She has worked on several projects from
meeting planning to leadership training. Most recently, Leslie completed her Project Management Professional certification through the
Project Management Institute.
Leslie’s project management and theatrical backgrounds are now
cominging together as APPAC kicks off the first season at the State
Theatre. She is very engaged by the theater management process, and
is excited to be working with APPAC. She hopes eventually to direct
musicals and comedies. Her last acting experience was as Sister Mary
Hubert in Nunsense, prior to moving to Reno. She would like to direct
Nunsense at the State Theatre.
Leslie is married to Rick Duran a long-time Auburn resident, and
has three step-children ages 13, 15, and 17 who attend E,V. Cain
Middle School and Placer High School. In her spare time Leslie enjoys
quilting and playing with her three Siberian Huskies.
PCT completes successful musical at State Theatre
The Placer Community Theater recently
completed a nine-performance run of their
uproarious play, Midlfe, The Crisis Musical,
by selling out all but one performance.
The play was a hilarious collection
of sketches about the
curiosities and inevitabilities of middle age. It
was the first live theater
production at the State
Theatre in more than
50 years.
The play, which ran from Aug 7-22, provided scenes that poked fun at forgetfulness,
hot flashes, mammograms and proctology
exams.
PCT is currently working together with
APPAC to form a mutually beneficial partnership that will allow
for live theater presentations throughout
the year at the State
Theatre.
Trio Rose sparkles in
chamber music series
opener at State Theatre
A newly formed group, Trio Rose, performed at the State Theatre September 20,
opening the classical music series of “On
Stage at the State Theatre.” The trio is a new
collaboration between old friends and wellknown Sacramento musicians, the Auburn
Symphony’s principal flutist Maquette Kuper,
Sacramento Philharmonic violinist Michelle
Xiao You, and internationally acclaimed
chamber and solo pianist Natsuki Fukasawa. You and Fukasawa performed the famous
Beethoven Violin Sonata Opus 47 no. 9 in
A Major, “Kreutzer.” Kuper and Fukasawa
performed the flute transcription of the intensely emotional romantic Sonata in A
Major by César Franck. The trio performed
Francaix’s Music du Cour as well as some
lighter works. Kuper, flutist, is a graduate of the New
England Conservatory of Music. She spent
two summers as a fellowship student at
Tanglewood (the summer home of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra), and studied in Paris on
a Fulbright fellowship. Fukasawa, pianist, is a graduate of the
Juilliard School of Music and the Prague
Academy of Music and recently earned her
doctorate from the University of Maryland.
Xiao You, violinist, a native of Shanghai,
China, began her studies with her father and
continued studying with professors Situ and
Z.L. Wang at the Central Conservatory of
music in Beijing. After coming to the U.S.,
she furthered her studies with the legendary
Dorothy Delay and Kurt Sassmanshaus at the
University of Cincinnati. She is the principal
second violinist with the Sacramento Philharmonic, as well as a founding member of the
Star Lite Quartet. a
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and a “Tip of the Hat” to . . .
• Glen Granish for his volunteer work painting and donation of a drill bit set, paint brushes,
waste basket, towel holder, and miscellaneous hardware.
• Encore Music for giving discounts on
the sound system items.
• Joe Castelli for assisting in setting up
the sound system he donated to APPAC three years ago.
• Christopher Crites for soundboard operation at the Nancy Blue
concert.
• Carol Arnold for lending a hand with her steamer and steaming
the wrinkles out of the state curtains.
• Glenda Gonzales for trimming and hemming stage curtains.
• Carol Vickers for serving refreshments at a recent concert.
• Eisley’s Nursery for loaning shrubs to the theater.
• Jeffco Plumbing for installing new water-efficient toilets.
• Anthony Peterson of AJPN Photos for supplying the picture of
the marquee for APPAC’s marketing materials.
• George Remaley for donating a table to hold the sound and lighting controllers in the control booth.
• Glenda Gonzales, Kathie Remaley, and Margaret Ravo for applying primer and two coats of paint to the stage and control booth.
• Monroe DeJarnette and George Remaley for installing theater
lights and lighting controls.
• Brenda Lindley of Placer Community Theater for lending
a DVD projector for the showing of Power of Community: How
Cuba Survived Peak Oil.
• Margaret Ravo for innumerable office hours, clerical work, volunteer data organization, and job description development.
• Tony Broadbent for assisting with sound and lights at recent
performances.
• Pekka Liemola of Palco for supplying a photo of the front of the
State Theatre building for marketing materials.
• William Michael Wauters for donating two 1930s lobby cards of
the movie The Midnight Special in honor of Al Phelps, a longtime
movie/train buff and part time projectionist.
• The Auburn 49er Lions and Host Lions for donating $1500 for
the purchase of a spotlight.
Shades of American Idol:
APPAC, Radio KAHI
sponsor karaoke contest
Calendar
o f Even ts
On Stage
at the State Theatre
2009
Nov. 13 -- Live Acoustic Music:
Corrine West CD Release Tour
Dave Rosenthal, Leslie Duran and Alfred
Lee act as judges for the first round of
competition held at the Power Club.
Dec. 18, 19 -- Community Event:
“It’s A Wonderful Life
Live Radio Show”
2010
Jan. 17 -- Classical Music
An Afternoon of Chamber
Music with Capitol Chamber
Players Woodwind Quartet
March 6-- Live Acoustic Music
Houston Jones Band
May 1 -- Live Acoustic Music
The Waymores with Sally
Barris, Tom Kimmel,
and Don Henry
Cinema
at the State Theatre
2009
Oct. 15 -- “Some Like It Hot”
Nov. 19 -- “Purple Rose of Cairo”
Jan. 21 -- “Run Lola Run”
Feb. 18 -- “Annie Hall”
2010
Mar. 18 -- “Diner”
Taking a cue from the hit television show
American Idol, Auburn Performing Arts
Center and Radio KAHI teamed up in September to sponsor three rounds of karaoke
competition that led to an Oct. 4 finale at the
State Theatre.
Dave Rosenthal, Alfred Lee, Leslie Duran,
Brenda Lindley, and Glenda Gonzales served
as judges.
The Power Club and Original Pete’s were
the venues for the three opening rounds for
the program called “Auburn Sings.” The show
was produced by Warren Burns and Gonzales.
First Round finalists are in the photo below.
Second Round finalists were Alyssa Cox,
Steve Lord, Jen Moore, and Anna Lisa Poganski.
The third and final round of auditions was
held September 29 . Results were unavailable
for this issue of Showtime, but will be listed
in the Winter issue.
April 16-17 -- Alfred Hitchcock Film Festival”
May 20 -- “Butch Cassidy”
June 17 -- “American Graffiti”
July 15 -- “2001: A Space Oddysey”
Aug. 19 -- “Casablanca”
(All movies on the third Thursday of the
month. Admission: $8)
Finalists from the first round of auditions
are Cecile Woods, Mike Spanjer, Heather
Hockstra, and Kellie Lockett.
Live Radio Play coming to Auburn in December
“It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live
Radio Play” is coming to the stage
of the Auburn Placer Performing
Arts Center December 18-20. An
exciting rendition of the movie,
it has roles for up to 25 actors,
including three children.
Glenda Gonzales will direct
the play in the newly refurbished
auditorium of the State Theatre.
Auditions will be from cold
readings. There is also the need
APAC Board
member
and longtime Placer
High drama
instructor
Glenda
Gonzales will
direct the
radio play.
for vocalists to perform the “jingles”
of the advertisements. The “radio
play” is one which does not require
memorization of lines. It does, however, require the actors to be very
familiar with their parts.
As was the practice with radio
shows, the cast will work from a
script of loose pages to perform their
parts when stepping up to the “radio
microphones” on the stage.
Please contact: Glenda Gonzales
at 530-885-2387 if you have questions concerning auditions.
AUDITIONS
for
It’s A Wonderful Life
October 12, 13, 14
at the State Theatre 7 pm
Call Backs Oct. 16
1931 movie posters donated to APPAC
An article and photo in the last Showtime about the 1931 movie
Midnight Special jogged the memory of Auburn resident William
Michael Wauters. He donated these two lobby card posters of the film
in memory of Al Phelps, a longtime movie and train buff and part time
projectionist. The lobby cards were part of his collection. Such cards
are 8-1/2” x 11” and were displayed in the lobby of movie theaters.
The movie tells the story of an innocent railroad dispatcher
who is blamed for the crash of a midnight special in which a
young socialite’s father is injured. The dispatcher eventually
proves his innocence, rounds up the robbers, and wins the hand of
the beautiful socialite. The film was released by the Chesterfield
Motion Picture Corporation in 1931
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